Según una larga tradición, Pitágoras fue el inventor de la armonía, entendida en un doble sentido: como una relación de una serie limitada de sonidos musicales y, con más amplitud, como una doctrina de la inteligi...
Así como es posible adquirir un lenguaje también es posible perderlo. Las personas pueden olvidar palabras, frases o incluso lenguas completas que alguna vez conocieron. También los pueblos dejan escapar, en el transcurso del tiempo,...
Just as speech can be acquired, so can it be lost. Speakers can forget words, phrases, even entire languages they once knew; over the course of time peoples, too, let go of the tongues that were once theirs, as languages disappear and give way to the othe...
An original, elegant, and far-reaching philosophical inquiry into the sense of being sentient--what it means to feel that one is alive--that draws on philosophical, literary, psychological, and medical accounts from ancient, medieval, and modern cultures....
Arguably the most influential work of the European Middle Ages, the "Roman de la Rose" is also viewed as having a lack of formal organization. The author offers a new interpretation of the romance as a carefully constructed exploration of the...
This book collects fifteen major philosophical essays written over a period of more than twenty years by acclaimed Italian philosopher Giorgio Agamben. The volume opens with an introduction in which the editor situates Agamben's work with respect to...